Participants

Agenda

Brief reports from Jim

Progress on BibServer/BibSoup

We have working uploads of BibTeX data with conversion to BibJSON, updating elastic search index, and faceted search and browse. Please browse around and register issues on the feedback form. May need to get a login for that.

Invitation from Microsoft Academic Search

email from Greg Tannenbaum who is contracting for MAS, Aug 9 : “we have been discussing the Open Bibliography project and it struck us that it would be useful to explore how we might get Microsoft Academic Search designated as compliant with your standards. Have you and the team thought about this type of seal of approval? If so, can we set up a time to discuss how we might qualify. We see Open Bibliography as a valuable undertaking and would like to both promote it and comply with it if possible”.

Jim has a call scheduled on this with Lee Dirks for 1:00 PM PDT for Tuesday, 9/20.

Agreed on strategy to engage MAS in openbiblio. Try to get them to provide export with an open license.

The European Digital Mathematics Library (EuDML)

Centre for Open Science (CeON (Centrum Otwartej Nauki in Polish)

is a newly created subunit of Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling (ICM), http://www.icm.edu.pl/ which is in turn an autonomous research department of University of Warsaw, a public university, funded by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education. CeON is in its inception and its webpage is still under construction. It should be visible to the outside world in about two months.

CeON has four priorities of equal importance:

promotion of open science,

providing access to scientific literature and databases for the scientific community

software development for digital repositories and

research in the area of document analysis, text mining, bibliometrics.

Name spaces for bibsoup

Need help with name spaces

From http://info-uri.info/ which is now deprecated: “The Linked Data idiom is currently ascendant, and accommodates both resource resolution and identification, which is different than the simple “info” premise of URI identification alone. This approach to resource identity is likely to conform more closely to evolving practice”.

We need guidance on managing name spaces for use in BibJSON for BibServer/BibSoup dev. (For ISBN there is a urn:isbn-namespace. (RFC: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3187.)

Author’s Guild suing HathiTrust

Twice mentions bibliographic metadata in ways that seem to include it in “unauthorized use”

Sections from the suit:

sec. 43:
“The digital copy comprises a set of scanned image files, files containing the text of the work extracted through optical character recognition (“OCR”) technology, and data associated with the work indicating bibliographic and other information.”

sec. 59
“Third, HathiTrust provides a variety of tools to allow its users to access content in the HDL. For example, all users may search and identify bibliographic information (title, author, subject, ISBN, publisher, and year of publication) for the works contained in the HDL.”

The concerned bibliographic data is derived from library catalogs.

This case is an opportunity to remind people of our agenda.

ACTION: wait a bit (for responses by others) and then post on the OKFN blog